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Bird Flu Is Spreading in Alarming New Ways

102

Eric Schmidt Warned Against China’s AI Industry. Emails Show He Also Sought Connections to It

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Europe Rules That Insufficient Climate Change Action Is a Human Rights Violation

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Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI

105

How I Became a Python Programmer—and Fell Out of Love With the Machine

106

A TikTok Whistleblower Got DC’s Attention. Do His Claims Add Up?

107

OpenAI’s GPT Store Is Triggering Copyright Complaints

108

Meta Kills a Crucial Transparency Tool At the Worst Possible Time

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Citizen Zoo Is Rewilding the UK, One Grasshopper at a Time

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How to Resist the Temptation of AI When Writing

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Smartphones Do or Don’t Harm Kids! So Which Is It?

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The Earth Will Feast on Dead Cicadas

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The Baltimore Bridge Collapse Is About to Get Even Messier

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Enjoy Your Favorite Wine Before Climate Change Destroys It

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A Deepfake Nude Generator Reveals a Chilling Look at Its Victims

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Why You Hear Voices in Your White Noise Machine

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The Feds Are Trying to Get Plants to Mine Metal Through Their Roots

118

The World Needs to Crack Battery Recycling, Fast

119

Why Is the Slack Hold Music So Haunted and So Good?

120

The Designer Who’s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge

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States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat

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Regulators Need AI Expertise. They Can’t Afford It

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Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers in the Race to Get Hired

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Rampant Wildfires Are Threatening a Collapse of the Amazon Rainforest

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The Quest to Give AI Chatbots a Hand—and an Arm

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Apple Could Be the First Target of Europe's Tough New Tech Law

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Europe Is Breaking Open the Empires of Big Tech

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Scientists Are Inching Closer to Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth

129

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Trump Trial Ransomware Leak

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Google’s Deal With StackOverflow Is the Latest Proof That AI Giants Will Pay for Data

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Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against a Group That Found Hate Speech on X Isn’t Going Well

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Tesla’s Charging Network is Now Open to Other EVs and Ford Is First In Line

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RIP Apple Car. This Is Why It Died

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A Discarded Plan to Build Underwater Cities Will Give Coral Reefs New Life

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Neuralink’s First Brain Implant Is Working. Elon Musk’s Transparency Isn’t

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Google Tweaked Search to Comply With EU Rules. Yelp Says It Makes Results Even More Unfair

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This Small Wearable Device Reduces Parkinson’s Symptoms

138

Climate Finance Is Targeting the Wrong Industries

139

AI Is Coming for the Experts. First, It Needs Their Help

140

A Virus Found in Wastewater Beat Back a Woman’s ‘Zombie’ Bacteria

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The Feds Just Bet Even Bigger on American-Made Heat Pumps

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Smoking Alters Your Immune System for Years After You Quit

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AI Is Rewiring Coders’ Brains. Yours May Be Next

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Who Tests If Heat-Proof Clothing Actually Works? These Poor Sweating Mannequins

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Developers Are in Open Revolt Over Apple’s New App Store Rules

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The Far-Right's Favorite Web Host Has a Shadowy New Owner

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Google Prepares for a Future Where Search Isn’t King

148

A Study at the Center of the Abortion Pill Battle Was Just Retracted

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Mystery Company Linked to Biden Robocall Identified by New Hampshire Attorney General

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A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash

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You Can’t Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To

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A Cheaper Tesla Model Is Coming in 2025 as Chinese Competition Intensifies

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Comcast’s Xfinity Stores Your Sensitive Data. You Can Kind of Opt Out

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Big-Name Targets Push Midnight Blizzard Hacking Spree Back Into the Limelight

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Apple Isn’t Ready to Release Its Grip on the App Store

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Researchers Say the Deepfake Biden Robocall Was Likely Made With Tools From AI Startup ElevenLabs

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This Chatbot Screens Your Dating App Matches for You

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No, the Great Tech Layoffs of 2023 Aren’t Happening Again

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This Chinese Startup Is Winning the Open Source AI Race

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ChatGPT's Hunger for Energy Could Trigger a GPU Revolution

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Trawling Boats Are Hauling Up Ancient Carbon From the Ocean Depths

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The Murky Campaign to Discredit Lab-Grown Meat

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Why Tech Workers Are Ditching Big Cities for Boise

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These Mining Companies Are Ready to Raid the Seabed

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Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data

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Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

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The White House Just Announced a $623 Million EV-Charging Bonanza

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Air Pollution Is Ruining Your Skin

169

In Defense of AI Hallucinations

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Spying on Beavers From Space Could Help Save California

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They Had PTSD. A Psychedelic Called Ibogaine Helped Them Get Better

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The Plan to Put Pig Genes in Soy Beans for Tastier Fake Meat

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This Ultrasound Bra Could Detect Cancer Sooner

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What Are ‘Missed Period Pills,’ and How Do They Work?

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Your Money Is Funding Fossil Fuels Without You Knowing It

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How to Stop Another OpenAI Meltdown

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Sorry California, Amazon Will No Longer Sell You Donkey Meat

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What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home

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Google’s App Store Monopoly Ruled Illegal as Jury Sides With Epic

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My Surprisingly Unbiased Week With Elon Musk's 'Politically Biased' Chatbot

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In a World First, a Patient’s Antibody Cells Were Just Genetically Engineered

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OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever Has a Plan for Keeping Super-Intelligent AI in Check

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Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees

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YouTube Is Now Hiding Which Channels Get a Cut of Ad Revenue

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Can Rock Dust Soak Up Carbon Emissions? A Giant Experiment Is Set to Find Out

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Why It Took Meta 7 Years to Turn on End-to-End Encryption for All Chats

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Elijah Wood and Mike Tyson Cameo Videos Were Used in a Russian Disinformation Campaign

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Google Just Launched Gemini, Its Long-Awaited Answer to ChatGPT

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Spotify Is Screwed

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OpenAI Committed to Buying $51 Million of AI Chips From a Startup Backed by CEO Sam Altman

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The Race to Find What’s Making America’s Dogs Sick

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A Life-Extension Drug for Big Dogs Is Getting Closer to Reality

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The Weirdest Reason the Poles Are Warming So Fast? Invisible Clouds

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A Damning Report Claims a Major Gig Economy Union Had a Culture of Abuse and Toxicity

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The US Wants Vietnam to Be Its New Tech Best Friend

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Here’s What’s Next for SpaceX’s Starship

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New Orleans Tried to Control Short-Term Rentals With a Lottery System. It Was a Mess

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The Precarious Rise of Disposable Vapes

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You Need a Heat Pump. Soon You’ll Have More American-Made Options

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YouTube Shorts Challenges TikTok With Music-Making AI for Creators